We are now in the final hours before the election. Whether you’ve volunteered hundreds of times for the campaign or you just joined our email list, we need your help now.
The Obama campaign is trying something that has never been done before. The campaign will have all of its volunteers in battleground states going door-to-door to talk to voters in person. They will not make any reminder phone calls. Instead, the campaign has outsourced the calling program to blue states like New York. Every single reminder phone call to an Obama supporter in a battleground state like Pennsylvania or Ohio will come from a blue state like New York.
Repeat: Every single reminder phone call to an Obama supporter in a battleground state will come from a state like New York.
That means that we’re counting on you, Brooklyn, in a way that no Presidential campaign up to this point has. Those reminder phone calls are an essential part of the get out the vote operation in battleground states. We MUST make these phone calls, and every phone call that goes unmade hurts our chance to win this election. In these last days, we need to make literally millions of phone calls from New York.
Brooklyn alone is responsible for making close to a million calls.
We need 10,000 volunteers from Brooklyn to meet our call goal. So, we’ll need every single person on this email list to make a couple of hours sometime between now and 8 PM on Tuesday evening, get three or four friends together and come down to one of the following locations with your cell phones and chargers to make some reminder calls. The calls are very simple. You won’t be calling any undecided voters. You’ll just be calling supporters and reminding them to vote in the election on Tuesday.
And don’t forget: all phone bank volunteers get 2-for-1 drinks on election night!!!
(We also need people who can help flyer. So, if you can’t make calls but you still want to help, please email amandat [at] brooklynforbarack.org and we’ll put you on a street team.)
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BRING YOUR CELL PHONE AND CHARGER
LOCATIONS AND START TIMES:
South Slope:
GRAND PROSPECT HALL
263 Prospect Ave (btwn 5th Ave/6th Ave)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 10am I TUE 9am
Clinton Hill:
BROOKLYN MASONIC TEMPLE
317 Clermont Ave (at Lafayette Ave)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 10am I TUE 9am
Fort Greene:
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC – BAM CAFÉ
30 Lafayette Ave (at Ashland Pl)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 10am I TUE 1pm
Brownsville:
POLY LOUNGE CAFÉ
530 Sutter Ave (btwn Hinsdale St/Williams)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 4pm I TUE 9am
Park Slope:
BROOKLYN LYCEUM
227 Fourth Ave (at Union St)
MON 10am I TUE 9am
Bed-Stuy
THE LAB
1424 Fulton St (at Brooklyn Ave)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 10am I TUE 9am
Bushwick:
3RD WARD
195 Morgan Ave (at Stagg St)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 10am I TUE 9am
Canarsie:
SALLY’S RESTAURANT
1574 Ralph Ave (btwn Foster Ave/Farragut)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 10am I TUE 9am
Flatbush:
CAFÉ OMAR
1744 Nostrand Ave (at Avenue D)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 10am I TUE 9am
